Lenovo G480

Introduction

This is a compatibility guide to running Linux with the Lenovo G480 laptop. If you have the Lenovo G480 and are running Linux on it please consider editing this page or adding a comment below with your compatibility details. By contributing you will help other people running this laptop or trying to make a decision on whether to buy it or not.

This page is just for discussing using Linux on the Lenovo G480. For a general discussion about this laptop you can visit the Lenovo G480 page on LapWik.

Summary

My notebook has one 3rd generation Intel Core i5-3210M, 2x4GB RAM 1600 MHz Corsair Vengeance modules, Atheros wireless card, HDD 500 GB/5400 RPM. The notebook came with windows 8 64 bits and almost immediately changed by Linux. After Debian Whezzy release i stopped stopped sniffing other distros. Almost everything runs smoothly in Whezzy even without “fine-tunning”. “Almost everything” because cooler runs very, VERY slowly and it is anoying me. I live in Brazil and in last months, daily temperarures are reaching stupid values like 34°C to 39°C (93.2F to 102.2F) and it keeps as higher until 6:00 PM when starts falling and stays arround 25°C (77F) all night long!. Given these situation my notebook is burning, as i need him working in field. I tried lots of searches and softwares and etc and all of them failed. Cooler is still running as low as possible. What can i do?

Jamshid Baghdadi, 2013/07/14 08:27

My wireless dont become turn on and turn off.what do i do?

Steve Betty, 2013/06/27 03:38

I have a Lenovo G480, the Atheros ar9285 wireless card won't stay connected. I bought this new computer in Vietnam, it came with Ubuntu 12.04, no other OS, Lenovo is no help and Atheros is no help, can anyone help me?

Leonardo, 2014/10/30 23:59

Try Ubuntu 14 or Debian Whezzy.
I have tested both and worked fine.

Brian, 2012/12/21 08:43

Ubuntu 12.04 - Linux Mint 13

Partitions The first problem was that Lenovo decided to use all four Primary Disk Partitions. Solution for this was simple Cut and Paste the contents of the D: partition to C: and check that it still worked and then after seearching the web for a Howto resizing the C: drive and deleting D:. This gave me rattling room for Linux Mint.

My first attempt failed with a dependency error re libc6-dev. Deleting the version in Synaptic that I had installed to get the wired connection working and running the code again got the wireless connection working on the second attempt.